Acetylene-gas generator.



G. H. 000K" AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAILZB, 1910.

1 015 37 Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

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mi TED srATEs PATENT oFmc GILES H. 000K, or nns MOINES, IOWA.

- ACETYLENE-GAS GENERATOR.

Specification of Letterslatent.

AppIication'me dJ/Iarch 28,1910. Serial No. 551,999.

Be it known that I, GI S H. COOK, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and usefulAcetylene- Gas Generator for Locomotive-Headlights,

Automobiles, Naval Search-Lights, and the Like, of which the following is a specifica- U011.

lateral movement or vibrationof a locomo-- tive, carriage or vessel on erator is employed.

My invention consists in the construction arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in any claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- 2 Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the complete device. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, illustrating the construction and mounting of the carbid basket in the carbid generator or generator chamber. 5 My improved carbid basket or container is shown in Fig. 1 applied to a generator in which 10 designates a supporting frame,

which my genfilling port 13; 14 a pipe connecting the water tank and cylinder, 15 a bracket extending laterally from the frame 10 and having a hand screw 16 mounted therein. The genand the edge of the chamber.

20 indicates a pipe connected to cylinder 11 with a valve 21therein, and 22a feed pipe connecting pipe 20 and chamber 17.

A carbid basket 23 is mounted within and. is removable from.the chamber 17. The carbid basket 23, is formed with four legs, preferably uniformly spaced throughout its circumference, and two ofsaid legs,24:, :25, arranged diametrically opposite each other,

Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by'addressing the Commissioner of iatents,

This invention relates to and is an imtwo legs, 26, 27, also arranged diametrically oppositeeach other. A supply pipe 28 leads through and from the flanged plate 18 to a point above the top of the water tank 12 I Patented J an. 23,1912.

areof slightly greater length than the other and leads from the In practical usethe water tank 12 is supfrom said tank through the pipe 1 to the cylinderlland fills the latter cylinder to a point above the mouth'of the pipe 20. Then water is admit-ted to the 'carbid holder through the pipes 20, 22 by opening the needle valve 21, and falls upon carbidcontained .in the basket 23. When the locomotive, carriage or vessel on which the generator is employed is in motion, the .carbid basket 23 w-ill be oscillated and jostled about 7 in the holder tothe end that all of the carbid therein will be brought into contact with from the otherpair of legs. 11 a cylinder, 12 the water tank having the gh the pipe 28' into the top'of the cyl .water dropping from 'thefpipe 22. "Gas genpairsof legs arranged at right anglesto 1' a each other, one pair of-legs varying in length 5 2. In an acetylene gas generator,-a gen- &

erating chamber having a fiat bottom, a carbid basket in said chamber, said basket 7 v having two pairs of legs arranged at right angles to one another, one pair of legsv being carbid basket being seated within the chamshorter than the other pair of legs, said her and supported bythe legs aforesaid engaging the flat bottom of the chamber, and

the basket'beingoscillated by movements of I the chamber. I

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa', this twenty-third? day of uly, 1909.

Washington, D. 0.

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